Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「洞幽燭遠」 and how it’s used.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「洞幽燭遠」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
Hole: insight; deep: profound; candle: illuminate. Describes a person with sharp eyes that can see into the deep and subtle details of things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dòng yōu zhú yuǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dung6 yau1 juk1 yun5
Chinese idioms, with their vast variety, hold different meanings and uses. Their abundance makes studying them rewarding, and these materials are here to help you along the way.
